📢Delighted to share that our paper, 'When do Gender Quotas Change Policy? Evidence from Household Toilet Provision in India', co-authored with sabyasachi das and kanika mahajan is now accepted in Economic Development and Cultural Change. [DOI: doi.org/10.1086/729342]🧵1/5

Waiting with bated breath...

One of the more interesting results to come out of India's COVID studies.
Gautam Menon may find it interesting.

Congrats Tanika Chakraborty and anirban1976 !

Hot off the press my piece on Hamline University's firing of a professor for showing medieval Islamic images of Muhammad:
cc: Keith E. Whittington FIRE Greg Lukianoff Heterodox Academy Nick Gillespie Nicholas A. Christakis @powellnyt Conor Friedersdorf KC Johnson Volokh Conspiracy Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱
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Excellent! Pol econ people check it out 👇🏽

Over the last 2 years, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis CMIE bulletins analysed how key indicators moved through #COVID19 #pandemic . Here's a new pub that compiles our analysis with a brand new summary. kanika mahajan Akshi sabyasachi das Anisha Sharma Ashoka University Consumer Pyramids Household Survey Ankur Bhardwaj

'Sagar Shah has become Sagar-bhai to his million-plus followers, a YouTube channel has been transformed into an online community or rather an extended Indian joint family.' Arvind Subramanian's lovely hat-tip to Sagar Shah and ChessBase India
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Excellent The New York Times op-ed by Meenakshi Ahamed: In India, the Case of a Missing U.S. Ambassador nytimes.com/2022/12/20/opi…

Thread: For an article I wrote for Article 14, Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi gave me access to a trove of data on 88 people on death row, one-fifth of India's death row population at the time. This included demographic data & transcripts of long interviews with the prisoners and their families.

Calling Ph.D. aspirants! Come and work with a dynamic and exciting faculty group whose expertise spans a large variety of topics. #EconTwitter

'AAP breaking into Saurashtra is particularly notable, as it is the region where the BJP faced heavy losses to the Congress back in 2017[...]. The Congress’ strike rate in Saurashtra dropped from 56% in 2017 to just 9% in the 2022 — due to the split of non-BJP votes[...].'

The Department of Economics at Ashoka University is organizing its 'Annual Economics Conference' from 11th Dec to 13th Dec 2022. The conference will have 18 speakers from various reputed institutions, spread across six sessions engaging with a wide range of contemporary issues.

The learning crisis is deeper than many assessments reveal: in India, 'the foundational skills of children are even lower than previously documented: 52% mastered frequently assessed skills, but only 27% mastered typically unassessed skills.'

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51 eminent economists write to the Finance Minister, for the *third* time, arguing for a major increase in expenditure on social security pensions and maternity entitlements. Long overdue!

2nd SERI-D Annual PhD students Conference 2022

Date and time: 9th and 10th December 2022 (9 am to 5:10 pm)

Zoom link:
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#EconTwitter #EconIndia #SERINetwork

The second annual SERI-D (doctoral students) conference is shaping up very well! It will be held online on December 9-10, 2022. Come listen to some of most exciting research by grad students in India. Watch this space for the detailed schedule. Society for Economics Research in India Rashmi Barua

Day 4 of violence in #Shillong Mobile networks are down. #Assam has stopped sharing fuel & the border crossing has stopped.
Two Indian states are fighting each other like warring nations & there isn't a peep in mainstream media.

#Meghalaya

📢📢 Yesterday, we at CEDA, launched an important new initiative with the vision and aim to find ways that can address India's worryingly low rate of female labour force participation.

The job listings page in IJME (seri.network/ijme/listings/) now features several jobs in India for Econ PhDs. Multiple recruiters have also expressed interest for in-person interviews. Thanks everyone for availing of the IJME platform! #EconTwitter #IJME #Econjobmarket